Word: mortalizes
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...mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe Doth seek to work...
...priests assigned to preach Lenten sermons, the Pope declared that Italians who failed to vote in the coming elections (see FOREIGN NEWS) were sinners. "He who abstains . . ." he said, "especially for indolence or for cowardice, commits thereby a grave sin and mortal fault...
With prayer, with humility of spirit tempering his temerity of mind, man has always sought to define the nature of the most important fact in his experience: God. To this unending effort to know God, man is driven by the noblest of his intuitions-the sense of his mortal incompleteness-and by hard experience. For man's occasional lapses from God-seeking inevitably result in intolerable shallowness of thought combined with incalculable mischief in action...
...Albina Patino and her children control 80% of the stock, she had, in effect, elected herself. But few would dispute her qualifications. When the door of the blue marble tomb at Cochabamba, Bolivia, clanged shut last May on the mortal remains of her 84-year-old husband, there was no one left alive who knew as much as she about the building of the empire. She had had as big a share as Simon in creating...
There, in the ornate Elliptical Salon, Betancourt handed Gallegos two keys. One unlocked the case in which the Constitution is kept; the other fitted a small urn containing the mortal remains of the Great Liberator, Simón Bolivar. Gallegos, deeply moved, pledged a democratic government, promised that all parties would be "allowed an open eye and a loose tongue." Despite all the glitter and gold braid, the ceremony was simple and moving...